When most people think the word Budget, they think cheap and inferior. We all hear the ads talking about "budget phones" or a "budget car". The word budget usually has a negative stigma attached to it.

It’s not a radio, so much as a princess-pink 13” Sony TV circa late 1980s, that reminds me most of the iconic Los Angeles Dodgers announcer Vin Scully. This rosy-hued machine lived in the bedroom I used to share with my younger sister in our childhood home. On the night of October 15, 1988, this television was tuned in to Game 1 of the World Series between my beloved Dodgers and the Oakland A’s. My two sisters and I ran back and forth between that small television and a bigger one in the family room, where my father sat, to watch the important game. The three of us mainly huddled around that small-ass TV, though, listening to Vin’s voice as if we were using it to keep us warm.